More From Maya Lin
- "I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."
- "Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think."
- "It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We’re reaching a time that we’ll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level."
More In War
- "War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don’t crush evil then evil will get you."― Ted Nugent
- "Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime."― George Wald
- "In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations."― Arthur Henderson